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Back to SearchSarit Yishai-Levi, "The Woman Beyond the Sea" (Amazon Crossing, 2023)
Episode 314
Today I talked to Sarit Yishai-Levi about The Woman Beyond the Sea (Amazon Crossing, 2023). The book was translated by Gilah Kahn-Hoffmann.
Eliyah is …
3 years, 3 months ago
Sherry Thomas. "A Tempest at Sea" (Berkley Books, 2023)
Episode 315
Sherry Thomas' latest book in her Lady Sherlock Series, A Tempest at Sea (Berkley, 2023), finds Charlotte Holmes in a dangerous investigation at set …
3 years, 3 months ago
Kelly Barnhill, "The Crane Husband" (Tordotcom, 2023)
Episode 68
Today I talked to Kelly Barnhill about her book The Crane Husband (Tordotcom, 2023).
Our unnamed narrator, a fifteen-year-old girl, manages to care fo…
3 years, 3 months ago
Jinwoo Chong, "Flux" (Melville House, 2023)
Episode 84
Four days before Christmas, 8-year-old Bo loses his mother in a tragic accident, 28-year-old Brandon loses his job after a hostile takeover of his bi…
3 years, 3 months ago
Svetlana Lavochkina, "Dam Duchess" (Whiskey Tit, 2018)
Episode 15
Svetlana Lavochkina's book Dam Duchess (Whiskey Tit, 2018) invites readers to take a surreal journey into the past: the construction of Dnipro Dam, t…
3 years, 3 months ago
Julia Langbein, "American Mermaid" (Doubleday, 2023)
Episode 83
Broke English teacher Penelope Schleeman is as surprised as anyone when her feminist novel American Mermaid becomes a best-seller. Lured by the promi…
3 years, 3 months ago
Jacqueline Winspear, "The White Lady" (Harper, 2023)
Episode 159
It’s just after World War II, and Elinor White (born Elinor de Witt, which also means “white”), a single woman in her mid-forties, lives as a recluse…
3 years, 3 months ago
Victoria Garza, "The Field" (Jackleg Press, 2022)
Episode 313
Victoria Garza begins her poetic memoir with her ten-year-old self learning that her little sister and cousin have died in a car accident. She painst…
3 years, 3 months ago
Patricia L. Hudson, "Traces" (Fireside Industries, 2022)
Episode 312
An early American adage proclaimed, "The frontier was heaven for men and dogs―hell for women and mules." Since the 1700s, when his name first appeare…
3 years, 3 months ago
Lawrence Osborne, "On Java Road: A Novel" (Hogarth Press, 2022)
Episode 126
The star of On Java Road (Hogarth: 2022), the latest novel from Lawrence Osborne, is Adrian Gyle, a down-on-his-luck correspondent in Hong Kong, in t…
3 years, 3 months ago